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> Meanwhile there's always some new area of life that impacts health - spend on sport, then on encouraging sport by paying for teachers, then on improving colle
by justinmk 9y ago
> Meanwhile there's always some new area of life that impacts health - spend on sport, then on encouraging sport by paying for teachers, then on improving colleges where the teachers train, ... before you know it the NHS is funding a deep mine in Siberia
In other words, central planning doesn't work[1]. NHS was a "special case" that tends towards the general case, as is the tendency of all untouchable mandates.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
- DanBC 9y agoThe NHS (in England) hasn't been centrally planned for some time now. That's what CCGs are for. Also, a bunch of stuff (drug and alcohol services, weight loss, smoking cessation, suicide prevention, sexual health, etc etc) isn't even NHS any more, and is part of Public Health which is part of local authorities.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoI'd go with "you can't centrally plan health within a system of Western Capitalism". Look at the trains in the UK - government was running one major line at a large profit, but they prop up the system as a whole with tax monies, why? It certainly seems like trains (maybe transport) could be centrally planned if you define the limits of the sector carefully.